Huntsville gazette., 1887-07-16
THn engineers on the BROOKLYN Etevat-

f The engineers on the Brooklyn Etevit-
ed railroad went on strike on the 11th.
and traffic was suspended. ~
REPORTS from Bollinsford, Somers.
worth and Darlington, N H., state that q
slight shock of earthquake was felt in
tnose towns on the morning OF the 11th,
PRINCE FERDINAND of Sake Coburg has
gone TO ST. .Petersb burg to solicit the
Cars consent to his acceptance Of the
Bulgarian throne.
| SEVENTEEN lives are, now known to
have been lost. in the theater fre at q Hur,
Rley, Wis. sa
"a welIto-do firms-, sreEdPag at w GOD.
bridge, Conn., was digging hole to bury
a stone weighing ton on the 11th, when
the stone rolled down upon him, killing
and burying him instantly. He was
crushed terribly
REV. WILLIAM w. Turner, for many
years principal of the American ASYLUM
for the Deaf and Dumb, at Hartford, Conn.
an early associate of Laurent Clerc and
Thomas II. Galaudet, and one of the
earliest teachers of deaf mutes in this
country, died on the 18th at the age Of
eighty-seven years. He was graduated
at \ ale in 1919, and was one of the oldest
living gradutaes. ~
A TERRIBLE conf1agration has visited
Witepsk, in northern Russia, destroying
Alb dwellings and business houses, the
police offices, six school buildings and a
bank. Thou sands of persons are rem.
dered homeless, and many lost their
lives in their efforts TO escape the flames.
The loss is estimated at 2,010, % rou bles.
TIE Gladstonian idea seems to be forg-
ing to the front among the English
masses. The Liberals gained another
seat in the parliamentary election at
Coventry.
THE first bale of new cotton from Texas.
classed about middling, was sold at auc-
tion at the New York Cotton Exchange
on the 18th. 1t was bought BY Walter T.
Miller & Co., for twenty-five cents per
pound.
. The city directory of New York, issued
on the 1lth, contains 2l75 pages of names.
numbering in ali 324 S13. ana, Indicating a
population Of 1000 There are $500
Smiths, 500 Browns, and 900 Joneses en-
rolled. %es.,.
EAST SAGINAW (Mich.) mill employees
are quietly working TO secure, in>.'what-
ever manner they may, the exclusion of
Frenclt- Can uadians who come over durin g
Jno WINTER ID WORK IN tne w lOuS, at WniCn
time mill men can. only find work in the
lumber camps. --r ...
The New York Commercial. Advestiser
claims that jay Gould is working a new
'pinch'' in Wall street, by which Garret,
and Ives are liable to be hurt and Gould
secure the B4l,imore &. Ohio telegraph
lines at about his own figures.
CHOLERA is rapid ly spreading-in Sicily,
and the virulent character Of the disease
is attested by the fact that out of 30l
cases in Catania, 140 have already been
fatal. Great alarm is felt at Naples.
owing to the arrival of large numbers Of
Sicilians at that place, and great clamor
is raised fora quarantine
The Pacific squadron has been ordered
to rendezvous AT Honolulu. This includes
the Alert. four guns, the Juniata, eight
guns and the flagship Vdndalil, eight
guns. The Iroquois has been ordered to
San Francisco for repairs before sailing.
The Asiatic squadron, consisting OF. six
men-of- war, is to be. ordered to Honolul u
If found to be necessary. el